About DRAWBOX DESIGN STUDIO Architects

Carlu Swart, after gaining valuable commercial experience at Boogertman + Partners Pretoria for five years, founded Drawbox Design Studio in 2012. Drawbox has since been growing rapidly and doubling in turnover year on year.

WHAT WE STAND FOR

• We believe a relevant architectural solution is generated through a process of creative interactions within a specific context. We sculpt space around a context that embodies the specific requirements of our client, the immediate surroundings and larger environmental, social and economic factors. Every project contains a unique context and therefore requires a unique architectural solution.

• Architectural products of only the highest quality and nothing but the best client service is of paramount importance to the Drawbox team. Every client becomes part of the Drawbox family.

THE TEAM

carlu swart

His passion for architecture lies in the process of discovering that moment when fragments of ideas and imagination fuse to form the composition of what is, the project.

Experience: 10 years.

Awards:

PIA Design Prize – Best Architecture Student, Third Year Design
Holm Jordaan Group Prize – Best Student in all modules in Third Year
SAIA Prize – Highest Average in all 700 & 800 Modules: Architecture
Corobrik Prize – First Prize: Best Final Year Average for Design and Technical documentation
PIA Design Prize – Best Student in Design: M.Arch(Prof)

Giving Back: University involvement
Wits – External examiner for second year construction
University of Pretoria – External examiner of the Masters Students [M.Arch(Prof)] for 2015 and 2016.

mikela van dyk

Architect

Mikela’s conviction that design encompasses all areas of our lives is what drives her to continuously pursue innovation in multiple dimensions.

Experience: 5 years.

Awards:

Received Award for Exceptional Achievement from Tshwane University of Technology for her
5th Year Dissertation on Rammed Earth as an Alternative Building Construction Material (80%)